EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED)

Registered charity 307071 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EASTBOURNE COLLEGE

Education of boys and girls from 9 months to 18 years old.

Objects

The objects for which the Company is established are to carry on and conduct or to establish and carry on or to manage either in Eastbourne, in the County of East Sussex, or elsewhere schools for the education of persons of nursery and school age; and to provide education of such type and in such manner as may from time to time be considered expedient for other persons.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Eastbourne, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity achieved an operational surplus of £1,789k, representing 6.2% of gross fee income, which meets the stated target of at least 5%. However, the Charity holds nil free reserves due to substantial fixed assets, relying on these assets and long-term debt facilities to maintain liquidity and continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Eastbourne College (Incorporated) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tom Lawson — Headmaster (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

53 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (41 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (5,384 followers) · instagram (7,204 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/08/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Edgar Burrows · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles Frederick Dennis BA
• Chun Kit James Fok
• Darren Lindsey Meek LLB FCA
• Dr Ian Edward Long
• Dr Peter Pachipano Gombera
• Dr Robert Mackenzie Wicks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Jane Kotz · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Richard Ernest Compton BSc MRSC
• Louise Angela Davidson
• Matthew Kitson
• NICOLA ECKERT BA PGCE
• Nicholas James Philip Elliott BA
• Victoria Jane Henley · trustee of 2 other charities
• William Henry John Maidens BSc ACA

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ELSTREE SCHOOL LIMITED.

• ELSTREE SCHOOL LIMITED income £7.4m
• BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £7.3m
• WESTBOURNE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.7m
• TRENT COLLEGE LIMITED income £19.8m
• THE ACORN SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £965k
• EASTBROOK EDUCATION TRUST income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.